Paula Grad @GradPaula

Gloria Steinem will go down in history as one of the most important activists of all time, leading a movement for the equality of half the world: its women. She lived a long and passionate life dedicated to this vital and basic cause. She did it with intellectual precision, emotional awareness, humour and beauty. May she rest in peace and may the cause thrive.

The right to vote is not protected simply because it is written into law. It must be defended in practice. As efforts continue to make registration more difficult, remove eligible voters from the rolls, and weaken protections against discrimination, we cannot afford to be uninformed or disengaged. Check your registration. Learn which offices and issues will be on your ballot. Know the election dates where you live. Help someone in your community do the same. Voter suppression thrives on confusion, silence, and isolation. Democracy is strengthened when we are informed, organized, and committed to protecting every person’s voice. #VotingRights #ProtectTheVote #Nonviolence365 #BelovedCommunity

Putin Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans. Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent. The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation: Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan. To name a few. An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021. Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up. The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

This is how they steal elections — not by rigging machines, but by making it harder for the people they don’t want voting to even register. We see you. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Scott Dworkin @funder

2 months ago

I need a huge favor. Can we get 1,000 retweets on this right now? The GOP's "SAVE Act" is a massive voter suppression scheme targeting young people, working-class folks, and married women. They are terrified of our power. Help fight back! Retweet! #SaveActIsPayToVote

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MIDTERMS - November 3, 2026 - 435 House seats - 33 Senate seats DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY = IMPEACHING TRUMP And if we can get a SUPER majority in the Senate, he could potentially be removed from Office too. If you want this authoritarianistic, dictator wannabe shit show to end — THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT. Please, don't give me your negativity about elections. THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT US TO DO - DOUBT OUR ELECTIONS. Trump has no control over the midterms. No legal authority to stop the midterms. No power to prevent the midterms from happening. He will, no doubt, try to rig the midterm election - like he did in 2016, attempted to do in 2020, and did in 2024 — BUT HE CANNOT CANCEL THE MIDTERMS. We don't need a blue wave. We don't need a blue tsunami. We need to politically nuke the entire Republican Party.

The many people begging you to read books and refrain from writing with AI aren’t doing it because we enjoy being insufferable. It’s because we know these things to be deeply joy-giving & rewarding, and we dread the prospect of a future in which people no longer learn, or think.

Memories…….😂

Lauren Vidas @BroadAndMarket

2 months ago

All I can say about the reflecting pool debacle is that I thought it would be impossible to top the Four Seasons Landscaping plot line, but having the guy who said he was gonna drain the swamp accidentally MAKE A GIANT SWAMP is giving it a run for its money.

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don't love how ads here are no longer labeled "ads"

We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.

“So Macron says to him… why not sign your treaty here, in Versailles?”

Fox is buying Roku. Ellison bought CBS and CNN. Bezos owns WaPo. ABC and NBC owners support Trump. We need to grow independent, pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket now. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

I didn't know I was a Knicks fan.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.” Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

The vibes were immaculate until one person arrived

PAXIS.app: ICE cannot simply declare a “perimeter” and gain unlimited access to your property. A temporary safety zone may allow officers to restrict movement or briefly enter areas necessary to secure an operation, but it does NOT automatically give them the right to search your property or enter your home. Without your consent, a judicial warrant, or an emergency, your home remains protected by the Constitution. Fight ICE: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

🐾Just 35 lbs, 4-y/o underweight Hailey surrendered mid May b/c owner says cannot afford. Listed for barking at & pulling toward dogs & tugging leash into her kennel. House/ crate-trained, protective, good leash-walker, energetic. Earned best possible behavior rating, playful w/ kids, lived well w/ a cat but ACC says solo pet only. Caught kennel cough. Needs a foster offer by 6/04: nycacc.app/#/browse/254327

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed. Here's what happened: He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all. These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees. Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him. A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it). The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth. But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress. With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not. And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her. The threat does all the work. By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress. Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch. If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place. Here's the full story: bit.ly/4dQN5N2

If Dems can find a way to pass an Impeachment resolution and force the Senate to vote, over 20 GOP Senators who are running in the midterms will be teed up to be blamed for every evil Trump does between now and November.

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections… He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments. That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you. It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity. He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar. Credit - Mathew Reed